Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that I announce the conference Viruses 2022—At the Leading Edge of Virology Research, to be held virtually 5-8 April 2022 at 13:30-19:00h CEST/07:30-13:00h EDT.

As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the central importance of virology to all aspects of the human enterprise has never been clearer. The pandemic starkly illustrates the impact that viruses can have on human health and activity, as well as underscoring how advances in virus research can rapidly mitigate the most severe outcomes. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been on everyone’s mind, we should not lose sight of the significance of other viral infections or overlook the utility of viruses or viral components that can be harnessed to serve useful and important functions; nor should we ignore the power of viral systems in studies across a wide range of biomedical disciplines, including molecular and cell biology, immunology, chemical biology, evolutionary biology, and structural biology.

This conference is sponsored by MDPI, the publisher of the open-access journal Viruses, and follows the very successful meetings Viruses 2016—At the Forefront of Virus-Host Interactions (January 2016; Basel, Switzerland), Viruses 2018—Breakthroughs in Viral Replication (February 2018; Barcelona, Spain), and Viruses 2020—Novel Concepts in Virology (February 2020; Barcelona, Spain). Like these previous conferences, Viruses 2022 will cover a wide range of topics of interest to participants. In addition to invited talks from world-renowned virologists, the conference will feature oral presentations and posters selected from submitted abstracts. The event will be recorded and will then be made accessible to conference participants on our Sciforum platform

I, and the Viruses 2022 Scientific Committee (Drs. Shan-Lu Liu, Mark Young, Britt Glaunsinger, Kathy Spindler, Veronique Ziegler-Graff), look forward to your participation in this exciting conference.

Eric O. Freed, Ph.D.
Viruses 2022 Chair and
Editor-in-Chief, Viruses

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Sponsored By

Conference Secretariat
Dr. Elena González
Mr. Aimar Xiong
Mr. Pablo Velázquez
Ms. Iva Rasic
Email: viruses2022@mdpi.com

Sessions

The conference "Viruses 2022 – At the Leading Edge of Virology Research" will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. Moreover, participants will have the opportunity to contribute with a full manuscript to the special issue "Viruses 2022 – At the Leading Edge of Virology Research" in the journal Viruses.

Please note that submission and registration are two different processes. Please use your institutional email address for both processes.

To present your research at the event

1. Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ on the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
2. Indicate what thematic area is best suited for your research.
3. Submit an abstract in English - the word limits are: minimum 150 words and maximum 300 words.
4. The deadline to submit your abstract is 3 February 2022. You will be notified by 18 February 2022 about the acceptance for poster presentation.
5. Upon submission, you can select if you wish to also be considered for oral presentation. Following assessment by the Chairs, you will be notified by 18 February 2022 in a separate email whether your contribution has been accepted for oral presentation.

Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 11th March 2022. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.

Authors with multiple contributions: please note that one author registration will cover only ONE accepted contribution. Authors presenting more than 1 contribution during the event will be charged 25 Euro per additional abstract (e.g., 1 author with 2 abstracts: registration fee + 25 Euro; 2 authors with 3 abstracts: 2 registration fees + 25 Euro; etc.).

Short talks will be 15 min long including questions (12+3 Q&A). The typical presentation should be up to 10–12-minute talk.

General information on the posters and poster sessions can be found by clicking here. Please send us your poster before 31 March 2022 and name it "PSI or PSII_Surname_sciforum-XXXXXX".

The list of names, sciforum-ID, titles of the posters, as well as the session in which the posters will be presented, can be found here. Please contact us if the poster presenter's name is incorrect in the list.

• All accepted abstracts will be available in a Book of Abstracts, only for registered participants.
• Participants of this conference are welcomed to contribute with a full manuscript to our Special Issue "Viruses 2022 - At the Leading Edge of Virology Research" in the journal Viruses. The submission deadline for this special issue is 19 August 2022. Conference participants will be granted a 20% discount on the publication fees.
• Viruses is indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), MEDLINE (PubMed) and other databases, and has an Impact Factor of 5.048 (2020).

We are happy to share with you our Sponsorship Agenda, and invite you and your company to participate in and sponsor our Viruses 2022 conference!

Information on sponsorship levels and the benefits can be found directly in the Agenda itself. If you have any questions or wish to discuss options further, please do not hesitate to contact the Conference Secretariat. We thank you for your consideration!